Staff Profile

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Biography

Director, Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks, The University of Newcastle Prof Dong is Ausgrid Chair and Director of the Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks (CIEN) at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He was previously with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, and the University of Queensland, Australia. He also worked as (power transmission) system planning manager at Transend Networks, Australia. His research interest includes smart grid, power system planning, power system security, load modeling, renewable energy systems, electricity market, and computational intelligence and its application in power engineering. He is an editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, IEEE POWER ENGINEERING LETTERS and IET Renewable Power Generation (Journal). He is an international Advisor for the lead Chinese journal of Automation of Electric Power Systems. He has been a contractor and listed researcher with Electrical Power Research Institute (EPRI), USA since 2001, and has successfully carried out 12 EPRI R&D projects in power system stability, power system contingency assessment, power system computing and load modeling areas. He has won over 12 ARC grants, 3 grants under HK RGC & ITF scheme, many industrial R&D and consulting projects in power system planning, stability assessment and electricity market analysis and load modeling areas. He is a member of IEEE taskforce on power system cascading failure, and a chapter coordinator for CIGRE work group on load modeling. Prof Dong has published over 430 technical papers, approximately half of them are referred journal publications.

Qualifications

PhD, University of Sydney, 01/04/1999

Graduate Certificate in Education, University of Queensland, 11/12/2002

•The University of Queensland (School of Economics in energy economics research), Australia

•Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

•National University of Singapore, Singapore

•Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

•University of Tennessee, USA

•The University of Hong Kong

•North China Electric Power University, China

•Shandong University, China

•Hunan University, China

•Tsinghua University, China

•South China University of Technology, China

•Zhejiang University, China

•City University, Hong Kong

•Guizhou University, China

•Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

•Chongqing University, China

•Sichuan University, China

•Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Administrative

Administrative expertise

Director, Centre for Intelligent Electricity Networks: I developed the centre from virtually one person to around 30 full time employees and many associates. The Centre attracts funding from ARC, industry, CSIRO and other competitive grants, from national and international sources.

Yang GY, Dong ZY, Wong KP, 'Differential evolution with niche method in the application of power system planning', Evolutionary Computing for Intelligent Power System Optimization and Control, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, New York, United States of America (2010) [B1]

Mishra Y, Dong ZY, Majumder R, 'A fixed order model matching approach for the design of robust power system oscillation damper', Evolutionary Computing for Intelligent Power System Optimization and Control, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, New York, United States of America (2010) [B1]

Song J, Dong ZY, 'Risk evaluation in electronic government based on hierarchy fuzzy method', Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on E-Business and Information System Security, Wuhan, China (2010) [E1]

Wong K, Yin X, Dong ZY, Xue Y, 'An agent based method for generator short term bidding in a competitive electricity market', Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Power System Control, Operation and Management, Hong Kong (2009) [E1]

Dong ZY, Wong KP, Zhou X, Ziser C, 'New issues on reliable and efficient operation of the national electricity market of Australia', Proceedings of Third International Conference on Electric Utility Deregulation and Restructuring and Power Technologies, Nanjuing, China (2008) [E1]